Throw Rocks

Traveling with babies ca be hard for lots of reasons. One is that Amelia gets really carsick. I kind of know the signs and can tell when "it's" about to happen. We were driving on a curvy stretch of road when I noticed the signs. I started to continually ask her if she was going to throw up or if her tummy hurt. Finally after some whining and suspicious gulping, I made Phil pull over to give her some air. We were on the highway, so to keep her from running into the road, Phil interested her in throwing rocks. Now, all she wants to do when she sees rocks is throw them. She's not half bad, and this kept her busy at the lake for quite some time. I like how if you look closely, you can see her rock mid air. Plus, I like her fashion statement.

Anything you can do I can do better.......

So Philip took Amelia to this playground with a little climbing wall and she acted like it was no big deal the first try on it. What a little monkey. She makes this stuff seem so easy, no wonder she is constantly trying to convince Ben to walk by holding his hands and saying, "Ben..walking....up, Ben". I keep trying to tell her that he doesn't know how because he's little, but all this does is change her walking commands to, "Little Ben, up, walking" She is going to be so wowed once he finally can.

My laziness

So I have been bored about blogging or lazy or tired or something lately. Oh yeah, it's called sleep deprivation or as some would define it as "the joys of motherhood". I also am weird and don't like to post without a picture, but I am slowly getting over that, so maybe the posting will be more frequent. Here is Ben's baby announcement for those who haven't seen it. I ran out of envelopes so I am doing the cheaters way out and just posting about it so you don't have to wait 6 months to get it in the mail.

Bath time

I don't know why, but little kids in baths are just so cute. This is Ben's first real bath. I like how you can see how Amelia is such a little darkie compared to Ben's hot pink skin. And how they both share that "deer in headlights", wide-eyed-look every stranger must point out.

5.4 Earthquake today

We experienced a 5.4 earthquake this morning. When it started to get a little strong, I rushed out to get Amelia, who was in the kitchen drawing. She was a little scared, maybe because I rushed out and grabbed her then rushed back for Ben. We stood in the door for a little while to make sure it was all done, then checked the house. Only a few items fell off the shelf in the closet, but luckily no pictures fell off the walls or anything like that. While all this is happening, I was on hold with AT&T trying to resolve some internet issues. Phil called, and I mistakenly didn't answer, which sent him in a slight panic and he rushed home to check on us. (I have been told that next time I will answer his call and hang up on AT&T) He works on the top floor of a 12 story building, and has to endure a far scarier experience of shaking and swaying in an earthquake, and when I didn't answer, he was left thinking that our very old and poor quality apartment had crumbled. He was very relieved to find us all OK. I think this picture of Ben shows what he might of looked like if he had been awake and understood that feeling of shaking was not the earth lulling him back to sleep!! As this was all happening, I was thinking to myself, if this is the "big one" at least I just went shopping and we have an abundance of food, water and milk. :)

Cinnamon Rolls

So I am obsessed with this cinnamon roll recipe and encourage anyone who likes to make bread or eat cinnamon rolls to make it. Amelia loves to help me and this time, I let her lick the gooey cinnamon bowl clean, mainly to keep her from licking the bread dough!! They are best just baked and then just freeze the extras instead of saving the dough in the fridge. 30 seconds in defrost and 30 seconds cooked in the microwave and they are just as if they were fresh out of the oven. mmmmm.

Grandma

We had the pleasure of Philip's mom coming for a few days to visit us. We were able to go to the zoo and just enjoy each others company. Amelia was a little shy at first, but soon warmed up and by the time she left, Amelia was expecting Grandma to be home every time we came back to the house. She had fun feeding her grapes and snitching cinnamon rolls from her and basically showing off in every way. I'm sure Ben enjoyed being held all day, a luxury he doesn't really get being the second.